Ive been playing with Mekire's movie repo and trying to implement it into my own. However i was looking for a background movie to play behind the menu. But i am not sure if the movie module will allow the regular music to play while the movie is playing (i extracted the audio out of the movie). I attempted it, but i ran into quite a few problems...my edited movies wouldnt play at all (so i re-used the example one for testing it), while python 3 couldt run it at all, and if you move around in the menu, you get a core dump. My assumption is that the core dump is a result of both the movie and the music trying to obtain the mixer? and the python3.x i am assuming its just a missing module or something as its an import error for pygame.movie.

Okay just tested it with a windows machine (don't have access to Linux at work) with python 2 and if I don't kill the mixer module I can still play music that is not from the movie. Haven't tested sound effects but I assume there is no issue there either.

I too have not found a version of pygame for python3 on Linux that has the movie module.

Hmm... I was messing with it last night. I converted an avi video using ffmpeg and it did technically work but the result was a video with completely different dimensions and horrible quality. At that point, pygame successfully played it, but it was worthless.

and i did notice once you said it, that the new video decreased in size (very slightly, but noticeably), so i passed the original videos dimensions in, and the quality seemed ok, with the same dimentions as the original video